Watched a bit of the match last night and place seemed to be stuffed to the gills.
Good result as well, even though Biarritz didn't seem to put up much of a fight, particularly at scrumtime.

sea_point wrote:

St Placide wrote:

sea_point wrote: St P, keep your eyes peeled tonigh for a Parisian sugar-daddy with Connemara roots to fund the rebuilding of the SG into a similarly impressive fortress....

SP - the stadium was built and funded by the taxpayers of Paris! Such is the way these things are done here. Stade is the sole tenant.

Ok folks, start checking your old dormant bank and post office accounts, see if you old folks have any saving certs/prize bonds from when you were a young un and we'll have ourselves a whip round.
Whaddy reckon StP, €40m to cover it..?? :whistle:

In seriousness though, it's visually beautiful. As a player you couldn't be anything but inspired by your surroundings.

Now if the Parisians audiences can be a little less fickle they'd be serious contenders..

Actually scratch that, have just ssent the cost...
(think Galway needs a ring road and the GLuas first)...

Location: Paris, Ile de France
Name: Stade Jean Bouin (Reconstruction)
Tenant: Stade-Français Paris, Rugby
Capacity: 20,000 seats (52 suites)
Opening: March 2013 (under construction)
Architects: Agence Rudy Ricciotti, Lamoureux & Ricciotti, BERIM, Thermibel, jointly with the CSTB (expertise & study)
Cost: €169M (100% Public: City of Paris)
7,400m² of commercial/entertainment areas + 1,000m² of office spaces inside the stadium
Renewable energy (photovoltaic cells: 2,800m²)
Rainwater collection system

www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=98424290

Check out the link though some great photo's of the various stages of development, building the concrete bowl and then adding the stell exo-skelton...

St Placide wrote:

sea_point wrote:

St Placide wrote: Tonight, Stade Francais - after three years of exile in souless Stade Charlety - will open the gates of the new Jean Bouin stadium for the game against Biarittz. The spectacular new stadium will be able to seat 20,000, with the club aiming for an average gate of 13,500. (They'll have their work cut out to sell that many tickets each week but season ticket sales have been high and are well up on last year.) I was lucky enough to get a tour of the stadium on Wednesday evening and it's very impressive.

Should be a decent game too as Stade try to build up some early season momentum after their first big away win in years (against Perpignan last Saturday).

www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Diaporama/Inside-jean-bouin/1680

St P, keep your eyes peeled tonigh for a Parisian sugar-daddy with Connemara roots to fund the rebuilding of the SG into a similarly impressive fortress....

SP - the stadium was built and funded by the taxpayers of Paris! Such is the way these things are done here. Stade is the sole tenant.

Ok folks, start checking your old dormant bank and post office accounts, see if you old folks have any saving certs/prize bonds from when you were a young un and we'll have ourselves a whip round.
Whaddy reckon StP, €40m to cover it..?? :whistle:

In seriousness though, it's visually beautiful. As a player you couldn't be anything but inspired by your surroundings.

Now if the Parisians audiences can be a little less fickle they'd be serious contenders..

Was in Paris in June and it wasn't quite finished but looked like a great stadium, I like the outside of it, makes it stand out from others. Hope you have many a happy day there St Placide!

St Placide wrote:
SP - the stadium was built and funded by the taxpayers of Paris! Such is the way these things are done here. Stade is the sole tenant.

A bit more complicated than that; lots of law cases about "Jean Bouin"

sea_point wrote:

St Placide wrote: Tonight, Stade Francais - after three years of exile in souless Stade Charlety - will open the gates of the new Jean Bouin stadium for the game against Biarittz. The spectacular new stadium will be able to seat 20,000, with the club aiming for an average gate of 13,500. (They'll have their work cut out to sell that many tickets each week but season ticket sales have been high and are well up on last year.) I was lucky enough to get a tour of the stadium on Wednesday evening and it's very impressive.

Should be a decent game too as Stade try to build up some early season momentum after their first big away win in years (against Perpignan last Saturday).

www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Diaporama/Inside-jean-bouin/1680

St P, keep your eyes peeled tonigh for a Parisian sugar-daddy with Connemara roots to fund the rebuilding of the SG into a similarly impressive fortress....

SP - the stadium was built and funded by the taxpayers of Paris! Such is the way these things are done here. Stade is the sole tenant.

St Placide wrote: Tonight, Stade Francais - after three years of exile in souless Stade Charlety - will open the gates of the new Jean Bouin stadium for the game against Biarittz. The spectacular new stadium will be able to seat 20,000, with the club aiming for an average gate of 13,500. (They'll have their work cut out to sell that many tickets each week but season ticket sales have been high and are well up on last year.) I was lucky enough to get a tour of the stadium on Wednesday evening and it's very impressive.

Should be a decent game too as Stade try to build up some early season momentum after their first big away win in years (against Perpignan last Saturday).

www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Diaporama/Inside-jean-bouin/1680

St P, keep your eyes peeled tonigh for a Parisian sugar-daddy with Connemara roots to fund the rebuilding of the SG into a similarly impressive fortress....

Tonight, Stade Francais - after three years of exile in souless Stade Charlety - will open the gates of the new Jean Bouin stadium for the game against Biarittz. The spectacular new stadium will be able to seat 20,000, with the club aiming for an average gate of 13,500. (They'll have their work cut out to sell that many tickets each week but season ticket sales have been high and are well up on last year.) I was lucky enough to get a tour of the stadium on Wednesday evening and it's very impressive.

Should be a decent game too as Stade try to build up some early season momentum after their first big away win in years (against Perpignan last Saturday).

www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Diaporama/Inside-jean-bouin/1680